Eternal punishment is pointless.

[dyresand]

Punishment can take on two forms. There is the kind that a parent might administer to a naughty child in order to teach them right from wrong and help them grow into a better person, and the kind that a parent might administer to a naughty child mostly because they are stupid and brutal people who can only soothe their own crippling emotional flaws by physically beating people who are too small to fight back.

The Abrahamic religions seem to take the view that there is no such thing as an unjust punishment, because the person who makes the rules cannot, by definition, break any rules. That is why I am curious to get the opinion of a follower or two, what is the justice in eternal punishment? When a person is dead and goes into the afterlife, what is the material (or immaterial) gain of subjecting that person to an eternity of misery and horror in revenge for whatever acts that allegedly justify it?

If there is no good here, and it is just revenge for the sake of revenge, if God is inflicting pain and anguish just because he got pissed off, how can this possibly be justified as anything other than the most petty and brutal sort of revenge?

well with a system like that we all go to hell... because we have thoughts and "free" will so any violent thought or wanting to covet a persons wife or soon to be bride is like buying the ticket to hell.

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The eternal punishment is justified. The punishment comes to those who have unforgiven sin, sin that is not forgiven will last for eternity because the sin is against the eternal God. So leave this life with sin and there's no chance of repentance, no repentance, no forgiveness, no forgiveness means the sin last for eternity and the eternal punishment is justified because of the never ending sin. If you have unforgiven sin in your life you can not worship a holy and eternal God, so one's downfall comes before the "not worshiping God" thing so many of you think gets you sent to hell, you're headed that way even before you don't worship.

GC

Yeah.....no.... you only live a finite life so why get punished forever. well i posted a video up about hell it was made up. so lets see angry god would be waiting for you because you just cant throw out the OT. Sin is made up even if it was real no one should ever go to hell for a eternity for something they did with their finite lives. and lastly whats so good worshiping god in heaven you do it here on earth as a mortal being isn't that good enough.